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-rw-r--r--manual/charset.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/errno.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/getopt.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/memory.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/message.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/resource.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/stdio.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/time.texi2
8 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/manual/charset.texi b/manual/charset.texi
index 79854e5..a49798c 100644
--- a/manual/charset.texi
+++ b/manual/charset.texi
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ We already said above that the currently selected locale for the
by the functions we are about to describe. Each locale uses its own
character set (given as an argument to @code{localedef}) and this is the
one assumed as the external multibyte encoding. The wide character
-character set always is UCS-4, at least on GNU systems.
+set always is UCS-4, at least on GNU systems.
A characteristic of each multibyte character set is the maximum number
of bytes that can be necessary to represent one character. This
diff --git a/manual/errno.texi b/manual/errno.texi
index 03a868e..3b0af0c 100644
--- a/manual/errno.texi
+++ b/manual/errno.texi
@@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ available on all systems implementing @w{ISO C}. But often the text
@code{perror} generates is not what is wanted and there is no way to
extend or change what @code{perror} does. The GNU coding standard, for
instance, requires error messages to be preceded by the program name and
-programs which read some input files should should provide information
+programs which read some input files should provide information
about the input file name and the line number in case an error is
encountered while reading the file. For these occasions there are two
functions available which are widely used throughout the GNU project.
diff --git a/manual/getopt.texi b/manual/getopt.texi
index 8c9bd20..7704515 100644
--- a/manual/getopt.texi
+++ b/manual/getopt.texi
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ When @code{getopt_long} has no more options to handle, it returns
@var{argv} of the next remaining argument.
@end deftypefun
-Since long option names were used before before the @code{getopt_long}
+Since long option names were used before the @code{getopt_long}
options was invented there are program interfaces which require programs
to recognize options like @w{@samp{-option value}} instead of
@w{@samp{--option value}}. To enable these programs to use the GNU
diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi
index 43afc7b..59ea1ee 100644
--- a/manual/memory.texi
+++ b/manual/memory.texi
@@ -2379,7 +2379,7 @@ exceed the process' data storage limit.
@c The Brk system call in Linux (as opposed to the GNU C Library function)
@c is considerably different. It always returns the new end of the data
@c segment, whether it succeeds or fails. The GNU C library Brk determines
-@c it's a failure if and only if if the system call returns an address less
+@c it's a failure if and only if the system call returns an address less
@c than the address requested.
@end deftypefun
diff --git a/manual/message.texi b/manual/message.texi
index e772b2d..e44545a 100644
--- a/manual/message.texi
+++ b/manual/message.texi
@@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ have this problem. But there is a very simple and powerful method to
handle these kind of problems with the @code{gettext} functions.
@noindent
-As as example consider the following fictional situation. A GUI program
+As an example consider the following fictional situation. A GUI program
has a menu bar with the following entries:
@smallexample
diff --git a/manual/resource.texi b/manual/resource.texi
index 4a814c9..0549572 100644
--- a/manual/resource.texi
+++ b/manual/resource.texi
@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ protected from concurrent accesses from different processors.
The POSIX standard up to this date is of not much help to solve this
problem. The Linux kernel provides a set of interfaces to allow
specifying @emph{affinity sets} for a process. The scheduler will
-schedule the thread or process on on CPUs specified by the affinity
+schedule the thread or process on CPUs specified by the affinity
masks. The interfaces which the GNU C library define follow to some
extend the Linux kernel interface.
diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi
index 6748513..9fb209a 100644
--- a/manual/stdio.texi
+++ b/manual/stdio.texi
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ operation itself is avoided. More importantly, functions like
introduction of threads) were implemented as macros which are very fast
if the buffer is not empty. With the addition of locking requirements
these functions are no longer implemented as macros since they would
-would expand to too much code.
+expand to too much code.
But these macros are still available with the same functionality under the new
names @code{putc_unlocked} and @code{getc_unlocked}. This possibly huge
difference of speed also suggests the use of the @code{_unlocked}
diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi
index 393bccd..f1f4254 100644
--- a/manual/time.texi
+++ b/manual/time.texi
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ This counter represents the number of calibration errors (caused by
large offsets or jitter).
@item long int stbcnt
-This counter denotes the number of of calibrations where the stability
+This counter denotes the number of calibrations where the stability
exceeded the threshold.
@end table
@end deftp